The State will have to pay the bulk of a €5m compensation payout following claims from 100 prison officers and prisoners infected by tuberculosis in a major outbreak at a prison.

Two prison officers were reportedly rushed to hospital yesterday afternoon after they were assaulted by an inmate at Cloverhill Prison in Dublin.

A roof-top protest by three inmates at Dublin's Cloverhill Prison has ended peacefully following negotiations between the protestors and prison staff.